# sagen
## Danish
### Noun

sagen c
* definite singular of sag

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

sagen
* plural of sage

### Anagrams

* agens, genas

## German
### Etymology

From Middle High German sagen, from Old High German sagēn, from Proto-West Germanic *saggjan, from Proto-Germanic *sagjaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ-.
Compare Low German seggen, Dutch zeggen, English say, Danish sige, Swedish säga.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /zaːɡən/, /zaːɡŋ̩/ (Germany)
* IPA: /saːɡɛn/, /saːɡŋ̩/, [-ɡ̥ɛn], [-ɡ̥ŋ̩] (Austria)
* Rhymes: -aːɡn̩
* Hyphenation: sa‧gen
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

sagen (weak, third-person singular present sagt, past tense sagte, past participle gesagt, auxiliary haben)
* (transitive) to say (to pronounce; communicate verbally)
** 1931, Arthur Schnitzler, Flucht in die Finsternis, S. Fischer Verlag, page 105:Sie schwiegen lange. Als er endlich etwas sagen wollte, wehrte sie leise ab. „Heute nichts mehr, ich bitte dich darum“.They were silent for a long time. When he finally wanted to say something, she softly refused. “Nothing more today, I beg you for that.”
* (transitive) to tell (to inform (someone) verbally)
* (transitive) to mean (to convey or signify)
* to speak up [with etwas]

#### Usage notes

In those inflected forms in which the stem sag- is not followed by a vowel, it is often pronounced: /zax/. This is due to dialectal influence and common throughout northern and central Germany. See the entries sag & sach, sagst, sagt, sagte, sagtest, sagten, sagtet, and gesagt.

#### Conjugation

$^1$Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
* 1st ps. sg. indicative present active also: sag', sag

#### Derived terms

* absagen
* ansagen
* aufsagen
* aussagen
* besagen
* durchsagen
* einsagen
* entsagen
* hersagen
* hinsagen
* Jasager
* lossagen
* nachsagen
* Neinsager
* Saga
* Sage
* sage und schreibe
* Sagen
* unsäglich
* untersagen
* versagen
* voraussagen
* vorsagen
* weitersagen
* zusagen

### Further reading

* “sagen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
* “sagen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
* “sagen” in Duden online
* “sagen” in OpenThesaurus.de

## Japanese
### Romanization

sagen
* Rōmaji transcription of さげん

## Middle Dutch
### Verb

sâgen
* first/third-person plural past indicative/subjunctive of sien

## Middle High German
### Etymology

Inherited from Old High German sagēn.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (before 13th CE) /ˈs̠aɡən/

### Verb

sagen (class 2 weak or class 1 weak, third-person singular present saget or seit, past tense sagete or seite, past participle gesaget or geseit, auxiliary hān)
* to say

#### Descendants

* German: sagen

### References

* Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “sagen”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* saga

### Noun

sagen m or f
* definite masculine singular of sag

## Old High German
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *saggjan, from Proto-Germanic *sagjaną, whence also Old Saxon seggian, Old English secgan, Old Norse segja. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈs̠aɡeːn]

### Verb

sagēn
* to say

#### Derived terms

* wārsago
* wārseggo
* ēwasago

#### Descendants

* Middle High German: sagen
** Alemannic German: säge
*** Alsatian: soeje (near Fränkisch areas, in Northern Alsace), sawe (Central), sàge (South)
*** Swabian:
**** Sathmar Swabian: sage
*** Walser: sägä, séege, ŝchegi, ŝchége
** Bavarian: sogn, sågn, song (phonetic spelling), soon (Timau), sång
** Central Franconian: sage
** German: sagen
** Luxembourgish: soen
** Vilamovian: ziön
** Yiddish: זאָגן (zogn)